This article is part of the CSIS executive education program Understanding the Russian Military Today. From the all-women Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareva in the Russian Revolution, to the ...

As we consider the prospect of American women in ground combat, we might look for wisdom to the experiences of Soviet women who served in brutal combat conditions, alongside men, during World War II.

In “Motherland,” the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country’s failure to ...

Julia Ioffe’s new blend of history and family biography takes on the contradictions of female selfhood in Soviet Russia, from achievement to marginalization ...

By the 1950s the Soviet Union had the world's highest percentage of women in its workforce. What that meant in reality is deftly sketched in "Women in Soviet Art," a fascinating new exhibit at the ...